First run in 2.5 weeks and it hurt, my left knee was annoying the whole way and i started back where I left off in my training program but should have dropped back a little! Felt great for the first 20 minutes but then fell off dramatically. Combination of physical limitations and environmental factors, running into a head wind was a huge killer on the energy levels! All my basketball ailments that I thought were fine were aggravated by the run and feeling like I've strained something in the back of my L) knee, either upper calf or lower hamstring, hopefully it rights itself for squats tomorrow!

Not sure why I decided to do 10 reps on the last set of Squats, possibly because the song that was playing boosted my adrenalin, but it was easy! Too easy! I'm starting to feel like I have a lot more in the tank then I've been using! Not sure if I should step up the weight or continue the linear progression? As for the OP and PC, I just though I'd stick to the same pattern as Squats and it felt good, similar to Squats they felt easy too! The pull ups, different story, they were killer as always! lol

After pulling up sore after my last run I decided to just "go for a run", no onus on a specific distance, time or training goal, and stop if I felt any pain in my knee! Was struck by a little niggle in the knee pretty much right on the 25 minute mark, so I stopped as I didn't want to over do it!

Also, I've let my weight get back up a little, probably a combo of the lay off, eating a lot more than usual due to night shift and hopefully a little is starting to show from lifting! Anyway, had gotten back up to 102.1kg as of Thursday so I decided to start working hard to lose weight again, already dropped 1.6kg in 2 days, obviously a lot of water and food weight! I've challenged myself to get to 95kg by April 12th, the due date for my second child! Not long I know, especially since I've been floating between 98kg and 103kg since December, but no one ever did anything without a goal they wanted to acieve right?

Worked out prior to working a night shift tonight, it's only just started so hopefully it goes okay! Everything felt good but a little heavy compared to last session, the chin ups felt great! I've decided my workout playlist needs fine tuning, I currently have a list of songs I love to workout to plaing on random but find I often miss the best bits of the song whilst resting between sets, need to make sure I get the best bits in the ears whilst under/over the bar! Also found that my motivation/adrenalin levels go through the roof when Skrillex (Dubstep) comes on, I've only just started listening to this type of "music" recently so maybe it's because it's new, mind you metal still does a great job! lol

Felt better then previous run, had limited time as I'm on night shift so I just ran instead of going back to my current 10k training program! First 5 minutes was aweful, I felt tight and sore and I was running ar a 6:37mins/k so to get my avg. oace back to 5:50mins/k by the end of the run felt great, walked for 1 min at the 30 mins mark then stepped u the pace for the last 2:28 mins, almost broke into a sprint just to finish off with a bit of anaerobic!

Had to rush through today, missed the workout yesterday due to sleeping after night shift and had to get in a quick one today while my daughter napped before her swimming lesson! Felt good on everything but pull ups, battery went flat in my phone so had no tunes going and completely lost my motivation! Looking forward to going past the 90kg mark on Squats and deadlifts soon, almost back to where I'd made it to in '09, hope I crack the 100kg mark with as much ease!

Everything felt heavy, I think it was due to how late, how far and how unmotivated I was for my run last night and the added bonuses of little sleep and doing yard work all morning this morning! But I got through, the last rep of everything didn't feel like I was at failure and I feel like I have energy to spare now that I'm finished!

Basketball:Only had 5 players tonight so had to play the full game, two 20 minute halves with only one 1 minute timeout per team per half! Finding that my speed and jump are improving already from lifting, made one shot over a guy I consider to be a great jumper where his fingers were at the middle of my forearm as I shot close to the basket, it actually suprised me, I didn't realise I'd made sucha dramatic improvement, a teammate said my finger tips look as though they were above the hoop as I released the ball, which is a shock as I haven't been able to touch a regulation basketball hoop for many years! I guess this stuff is working already! :) Scored 20 out of my teams 50 points and we won by 10 points so good night all round!

Felt good, noticing that as other lifts involving back go up my chins/pulls are staying the same, which is good I guess? Might start playing with some ideas from the Chin/Pull Up challenge thread for them!

First run in 12 days, back to 10k training, felt awesome for the first 5k, knocked it over in 28:39 mins, then I hit a head wind while going up hill and the 6th km took FOREVER! Managed to get the pace back up for the 7th km though, I ran past my destination to add k's, turned around and got the tailwind going downhill and finished strong! Got 'Fun' Runs coming up in May, 8k on the 13th and 11k on the 20th, looking forward to them, hope to run the whole distance for both!

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